Title 6, Domestic SecurityRelease 119-110
§103a Department of Homeland Security Nonrecurring Expenses Fund
Title 6 › CHAPTER 1 — HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION › § 103a
Summary
Creates the DHS Nonrecurring Expenses Fund. Unused balances of expired discretionary General Fund appropriations for DHS may be moved into it by the end of the fifth fiscal year after the last year they were available. Funds remain available until spent. With OMB approval, they may pay for IT modernization and facility improvements. Funds can't be used for a fiscal year until after full-year DHS appropriations are enacted; Appropriations Committees must get at least 15 days' notice before planned use.
Full Legal Text
Title 6, §103a
Domestic Security, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
(a)Establishment
There is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the “Department of Homeland Security Nonrecurring Expenses Fund” (the Fund).
(b)Transfer of unobligated balances of expired discretionary funds
Unobligated balances of expired discretionary funds appropriated for this or any succeeding fiscal year from the General Fund of the Treasury to the Department of Homeland Security by this or any other Act may be transferred (not later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the last fiscal year for which such funds are available for the purposes for which appropriated) into the Fund.
(c)Availability of funds
Amounts deposited in the Fund shall be available until expended, and in addition to such other funds as may be available for such purposes, for information technology system modernization and facilities infrastructure improvements necessary for the operation of the Department, subject to approval by the Office of Management and Budget.
(d)Limitation on apportionment or allotment of funds
Amounts in the Fund may not be apportioned or allotted for any fiscal year until after the date on which the Act making full-year appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the applicable fiscal year is enacted into law, subject to subsection (e).
(e)Notification of planned use of funds
The Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate shall be notified at least 15 days in advance of the planned use of funds.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2022, and also as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, and not as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 which comprises this chapter.
Amendments
2024—Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 118–47 added subsecs. (d) and (e) and struck out former subsec. (d). Prior to amendment, text of subsec. (d) read as follows: “Amounts in the Fund may be obligated only after the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance of the planned use of funds.”
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2024 Amendment Pub. L. 118–47, div. C, title V, § 539(b), Mar. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 624, provided that: “The
Amendments
made by this section [amending this section] shall apply to amounts transferred under such section 538 [of Pub. L. 117–103, 6 U.S.C. 103a] on or after the date of enactment of this Act [Mar. 23, 2024].”
Reference
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Citation
6 U.S.C. § 103a
Title 6, Domestic Security
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110